Natalie Maines of the 'Dixie Chicks' created quite an uproar the night of the president's decision to declare war on Iraq in 2003. Maines stated that the Dixie Chicks as a whole were 'ashamed' of the Bush decision and Maines said she was "embarrassed he was from Texas."

The group refused to retract their statement, and instead responded to the criticism by releasing their new single 'Not Ready To Make Nice,' earlier this year.

According the New York Post's Page Six, The Chicks' biggest detractor, FreeRepublic.com founder Jim Robinson, reportedly declined to appear in their documentary, "Shut Up and Sing."

Page Six has more: 'Ken Sunshine, who reps the George Bush-bashing Chicks, calls him [Jim Robinson] "a coward. A real man would put his money where his mouth is, but this Robinson guy, he'd rather hide behind his keyboard than have a real discussion about his ideas . . . he's just a chicken[bleep] fraud."'

According to Robinson's rep, Kristinn Taylor, Robinson ducked the interview: "He told me to go ahead and do it."

I could see them cutting up the interview, and making Jim look like that nut from that baptist church the other night. Jim did the smartest thing he could in this circumstance. I'd like to know if his rep really said that "he ducked the interview"

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posted on 10/09/2006 6:52:27 AM PDT
by truthandlife
("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))

According the New York Post's Page Six, The Chicks' biggest detractor, FreeRepublic.com founder Jim Robinson, reportedly declined to appear in their documentary, "Shut Up and Sing." Page Six has more: 'Ken Sunshine, who reps the George Bush-bashing Chicks, calls him [Jim Robinson] "a coward. A real man would put his money where his mouth is, but this Robinson guy, he'd rather hide behind his keyboard than have a real discussion about his ideas .......

These people seem to have no clue that Free Republic is a Forum with thousands of posters and not Jim Robinson's blog.

Kristinn can call FOX News and see if he can get a half hour. A real debate - with a chess clock to keep it equal - might be interesting.

Appearing in a propaganda flick, allowing dishonest Hollywood creeps to cut and paste would NOT be interesting...

Would the Hollywood narcissists come to FreeRepublic to debate if we could take out words and rearrange other words while they were writing their comments? I don't think so. Then again, because we're not puffed up liars like them, we wouldn't do that - we wouldn't cheat - but they would. And if Kristinn is in their film, they'll cheat. It's who they are.

The funny thing is this film will finish off the chicks - but the film maker doesn't care - he'll make his.

You can't discuss "real ideas" with the likes of the Ditzy Chicks! What a flipping moron! With all the publicity she gets, poor Nat will never have a chance to grow up and mentally mature. She'll be stuck with her current "real ideas" until the day she dies.

Natalie Maines spends too much time in a chicken yard, she talks like an ignorant "fowl" (note pun) mouth. Take away all of Natalie Maines Chicken Bleeps and you just have a hyperventilating simple minded idiot.

"You have been singled out and attacked by America's premier Entertraitors."

That is giving them way more credit than they deserve. They are no talent losers who find it necessary to act like political morons in order to get noticed. Their records don't sell and no one wants to see them in concert, so they have to make a living as political prostitutes for the countries socialists and other assorted moon bats.

Thats what this film is about. It's a payday for these losers. Pathetic if you think about it.

We are at war. Jim Robinson supports our troops and their Commander in Chief. I support Jim Robinson.

In the words of Ben Stein (he says it better than i can)...

Real stars are not riding around in the backs of limousines or in Porsches or getting trained in yoga or Pilates and eating only raw fruit while they have Vietnamese girls do their nails.

They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer. A real star is the soldier of the 4th Infantry Division who poked his head into a hole on a farm near Tikrit, Iraq. He could have been met by a bomb or a hail of AK-47 bullets. Instead, he faced an abject Saddam Hussein and the gratitude of all of the decent people of the world.

A real star is the U.S. soldier who was sent to disarm a bomb next to a road north of Baghdad. He approached it, and the bomb went off and killed him.

A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad.

Meanwhile back at the 'ranch' (aka: Austin Texas)...Several dozen fans showed up for the Dixie Chicks concert Sunday at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin. They hadnt heard the trio had rescheduled their show for december, a result of slow ticket sales over lead singer Natalie Maines comments three years ago about President Bush. Back in 2003, before a concert in London, Maines spoke out against Bush and his planned invasion of Iraq. She said she was ashamed that Bush was from Texas. BWA HA HA!

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